Baltimore Orioles
If you haven’t noticed, the Cardinals are in the middle of a stretch during which they play 16 games in 16 days. That alone is tough enough, but somewhere in the middle of that they are starting inter-league play (aka – “The unbalanced schedule”). Maybe it’s a statistical certainty that over a really long period of [...]
Posted in: American League,Inter-league
Tagged with: Baltimore Orioles, Brad Bergeson, Chris Tillman, David Price, Eric Hosmer, Inter-league play, Jake Arrieta, James Shields, Jeff Niemann, Jeremy Guthrie, Jeremy Hellickson, Jose Bautista, Kansas City Royals, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays, Wade Davis, Zack Britton
While it may not look like it at first, according to Scott Boras, the competition for landing Matt Holliday in free agency appears to be a very tight race between two teams… In case you can’t read the ridiculously small legend at right, I’ll give you the goods here: I’ve got the Cards in red. [...]
As part of another United Cardinal Bloggers project, below are our (largely uninformed) predictions for the American League standings in 2009. AL East Just an absolutely brutal division, could easily have three playoff teams if not for that silly “one from each division” rule. New York Yankees – they bought up every player under the [...]
Posted in: American League,Non-Cardinals,United Cardinal Bloggers
Tagged with: AJ Burnett, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball Prospectus, Billy Beane, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, David Price, Detroit Tigers, Erik Bedard, Jason Giambi, Jim Leyland, Kansas City Royals, LA Angels of Anaheim, Mark DeRosa, Minnesota Twins, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, Ozzie Guillen, Predictions, Ron Gardenhire, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, Texas Rangers, Toronto Blue Jays, UCB, United Cardinal Bloggers, Vernon Wells, Victor Martinez
Now, before everyone attacks me about this being a rebuilding year and the Cards shouldn’t be giving up propects for rentals, don’t sell the farm, they’re in this position because Walt Jocketty mortgaged the future for now, etc., please listen. It doesn’t have to be a big move. I’m not talking about shipping out Colby [...]
Posted in: Blogs,Cardinals Coaches,Cardinals Front Office,Current Cardinals,Minor League Cardinals,Non-Cardinals
Tagged with: Adam Wainwright, Anthony Reyes, Arthur Rhodes, Baltimore Orioles, Braden Looper, Brendan Ryan, Brian Fuentes, Bullpen, CC Sabathia, Chicago Cubs, Chris Carpenter, Chris Duncan, Colby Rasmus, Damaso Marte, Doug Melvin, George Sherrill, Jack Wilson, Jarrod Washburn, Jason Bay, Jay Gibbons, Joe Mather, Joel Pineiro, John Grabow, John Mozeliak, Jon Jay, Kelvin Jimenez, Ken Rosenthal, Kyle Lohse, Kyle McClellan, Matt Holliday, Milwaukee Brewers, Mitchell Boggs, Randy Flores, Ray Durham, Ron Villone, Shane Robinson, Todd Wellemeyer, Tony LaRussa, Viva El Birdos, Walt Jocketty
